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The book provides a pioneering overview of the evolution of the local government and urban policy in Cape Verde after independence, offering a multi-scale perspective of local governance in Cape Verde from 1970 - 2020. It examines the process of urban development in the country, and in the capital city in particular, and explores the consequences and challenges for spatial planning, housing, urban heritage, and the environment, namely issues related to climate change in the post-independence period.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Chapter 1 Ancient, colonial, and post-colonial urban planning in Africa: An introduction; References; Part I Colonial urban planning and pre-colonial urban heritage in Africa; Chapter 2 The birth of a town: Indigenous planning and colonial intervention in Bolgatanga, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The domestic unit and its cycle of development; 2.3 From the first explorers to the birth of the 'town'; 2.4 Conclusion; Notes; References

"This book discusses various perspectives on facets of citizen engagement in open urban policy processes, all of them based on the widespread use of information and communication technologies in the field of urban/spatial planning. The book offers an updated outline of recent advances in this field as well as a critical perspective of the challenges with which citizen e-participation in urban e-planning is confronted"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Ancient, colonial, and post-colonial urban planning in Africa: An introduction -- References -- Part I Colonial urban planning and pre-colonial urban heritage in Africa -- Chapter 2 The birth of a town: Indigenous planning and colonial intervention in Bolgatanga, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The domestic unit and its cycle of development -- 2.3 From the first explorers to the birth of the 'town' -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 History of the urban planning of the city of Zinder in the Niger Republic -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Contextual background and methodology -- 3.2.1 Background -- 3.2.2 Issues -- 3.2.3 Methodology -- 3.3 Results -- 3.3.1 Institutional and regulatory framework and urban planning actors in Zinder -- 3.3.2 Spatial dynamics in Zinder -- 3.3.3 The organization of the ancient city of Birni -- 3.3.4 First sketch of planning of colonial period -- 3.3.5 The first serviced plots of the city of Zinder of the 1970s -- 3.3.6 Urban development plan (UDP) of 1980 -- 3.3.7 Parcelling out without urban services from 2000 to 2017 -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.4.1 Zinder, fortified town with traditional architecture -- 3.4.2 Juxtaposition of the colonial city with ancient fabrics -- 3.4.3 Lack of synergy between urban planning actors in Zinder -- 3.4.4 Planning objectives partially achieved in Zinder -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Mise en valeur and repopulation in colonial rural development in French Morocco -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Centre, periphery, and resource extraction -- 4.3 The colonization corridor in the Gharb -- 4.4 Water, technology, and rural modernity -- 4.5 Housing the workforce: The Service de l'Urbanisme in the countryside.

"This book examines different ways with citizen engagement in the local policy process, with citizens as sensors, with new technological approaches to open digital mapping, and how these e-tools augment participatory planning processes. It also deals with different aspects of data generation and data collection in the planning process"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview -- 3 The IFHTP Discourse on Urbanism in Colonial Africa between the Wars -- 4 Colonial Urban Planning in Anglophone Africa -- 5 Colonial Planning Concept and Post-colonial Realities: The Influence of British Planning Culture in Tanzania, South Africa and Ghana -- 6 French Colonial Urbanism in Africa -- 7 The Grid Plan in the History of Senegalese Urban Design -- 8 Architecture and Town Planning in Italian East Africa During the Years of the Empire (1936-1941) -- 9 Colonial Cities at the Crossroads: Italy and Ethiopia -- 10 The German Variation: A Sketch of Colonial Städtebau in Africa, 1884-1919 -- 11 Crossed Colonization. Housing Development in Urban Peripheries: The Hispanic-African Colonial Territories, 1912-1976-2013 -- 12 Kinshasa's Syndrome-Planning in Historical Perspective: From Belgian Colonial Capital to Self-Constructed Megalopolis -- 13 Influence of Croatian Urban Planners in Post-colonial Africa: Urban Development Plan of Conakry, Guinea, 1963 -- 14 Reflections on Some Aspects of Town-Building During the 1800s at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, of Relevance to Today -- 15 Valuing Possibility: South-South Cooperation and Participatory Budgeting in Maputo, Mozambique -- 16 The Developmentalist Origins and Evolution of Planning Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, c. 1940 to 2010 -- Index.

"This book brings together the efficiency of web-based tools and digital technologies with the practice of spatial planning, focusing on the utilization of geographic information systems, computer-assisted design, visualization concepts, and database management systems for enhancing the traditional practices in urban planning"--

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book fills the gap by providing an in-depth analysis of key issues in the history of urban planning and discussing the key challenges confronting contemporary urban planning in these countries. The book argues that urban planning is a non-neutral and non-value free kind of public action and, therefore, ideology, planning theories, urban models and the.